32. Altruism

Question 1

Refers to behaviours that help other people with no apparent gain or with potential costs to oneself.

Answer 1

Altruism

Question 1

Philosophers and psychologists disagree as to whether an act can be purely altruistic or whether all apparently altruism is really intended to make the apparent altruist feel better (this is called ____ ____).

Answer 1

ethical hedonism

Question 2

People can behave altruistically to others if the likely benefits to each individual over time exceeds the like cost.

Answer 2

Reciprocal altruism

Question 3

Researchers studying ____ ____ have found that individuals often do not help in a crisis in the presence of other people.

Answer 3

Bystander intervention

Question 4

To ____, the person must notice the event, identify it as an emergency and assume personal responsibility for intervening.

Answer 4

intervene

Question 5

A diminished sense of personal responsibility to act, is one important reason people do not intervene.

Answer 5

Diffusion of responsibility

Question 6

____ ____ of whether or not people will help interact with individual difference variables, such as gender, to determine when helping will occur.

Answer 6

Situational determinants